Words Dept.

I’m becoming moderately obsessed by vintage Penguin paperbacks, mainly for the covers. Like these: Penguin Crime – a set on Flickr Penguin Books – a set on Flickr Penguin & Pelican Collection – a set on Flickr

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Guardian: No new stadium. A huge debt. Despite their promises, Hicks and Gillett have ‘done a Glazers’ – Excellent piece by David Conn 5 Twitter Tools to Help You Manage Unfollowers The Worst, #1 – Magazine. [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more of this sort of thing. The Apprentice Analysed – Occupational psycholgist offers insight about candidates on the Apprentice eaves.ca: Newspapers’ decline is a sign of democracy, not a symptom of its death MediaGuardian: MEN Media to use ‘skills matrix’ to decide who [...]

A selection of bookmarks for January 15 U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work Designer credit cards Hughes plans for Kaka arrival as City close in on Milan playmaker – Meanwhile in the real world, Mark Hughes attempts to sign Craig Bellamy Rio police claim drug gangs cleared from City of God

Coldplay have started dressing like extras from Les Miserables. I saw them on Jonathan Ross last night; they were wearing vaguely military garb and seemed to have bits of flag tied around their arms. At least one of them was wearing a stupid hat. I suppose it ties in with the artwork for their new [...]

On the day Tower Hamlets council decided to paint over some graffiti by Banksy, here (after the jump) is some less artistic but possibly more amusing vandalism of advertising hoardings. Sky’s ads seem to be a particular magnet for sarcasm… The second one is in Manchester. I recognise the hoarding underneath the advert. No, really.  

Jamie Hewlett, of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame, has created the art and costume design for a new production of a Chinese “circus opera” to be staged as part of the Manchester International Festival, which starts next week. It’s called Monkey: Journey to the West and features music by Damon Albarn. Dazed & Confused has [...]

Would you look at that? A massive 4ft designer toy by in demand artist KAWS. Not sure where I’d put this – perhaps it could stay in the window to scare away burglars. It retails at around £1,250. Not that unreasonable for an artwork on this sort of scale. Consider, for example, that Damien Hirst [...]